Simple build.xml template for PhING https://phing.info/

build.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<!-- Conventions/Standards:
   * Filenames consist of no more or less than two elements: name and extension
   * Choose short descriptive filenames (must be less than 31 chars)
   * Names must not contain dots
   * Files containing PHP code must end with the extension .php
   * The name portion of the file must be named exactly like the class it contains
   * Buildfiles and configure rulesets must end with the extension .xml
   * There must be only one class per file (no procedural methods allowed, use a 
      separate file for them), with the exception of "inner"-type / helper classes 
      that can be declared in the same file as the "outer" / main class

   Source: https://phing.info/phing/guide/en/output/hlhtml/#d5e1758
-->

<!-- Project information -->
<project name="TestProject" description="The test project." phingVersion="2" basedir="." default="main">

   <!----- File/Directory ----->

   <!-- Sets the mode of file/directory -->
   <chmod file="./filename.php" mode="0755"/>
   <chmod file="/path/to/somewhere/" mode="0775" quiet="true"/>
   <chmod file="./filename.so" mode="0500" verbose="true"/>

   <!-- Changes the owner of file/directory -->
   <chown file="./filename.php" user="root"/>
   <chown file="./filename.dll" user="testname" group="testersgroup"/>
   <chown file="./filename.so" user="leader.developersgroup"/>
   <chown file="/path/to/somewhere/" user="administrator"/>

   <!-- Creates directory -->
   <mkdir dir="./directoryname"/>
   <mkdir dir="./directoryname" mode="0777"/>
   <mkdir dir="${myProperty.install_path}/directoryname"/>

   <!-- Deletes file -->
   <delete file="/path/to/somewhere/filename.php" verbose="false"/>
   <!-- Deletes directory -->
   <delete dir="/path/to/somewhere" includeemptydirs="true" failonerror="true"/>

   <!-- Copy file/directory -->
   <copy file="./filename.php" todir="/path/to/somewhere/filename.bak" overwrite="true"/>
   <copy file="./testpath/filename.exe" todir="/path/to/somewhere1/filename.bak" overwrite="false" mode="0755"/>
   <copy file="${myProperty.install_path}/directoryname/filename.dll" todir="/path/to/somewhere2/filename.bak" overwrite="false" haltonerror="true"/>
   <copy file="./filename.so" todir="/path/to/somewhere3/filename.bak" overwrite="true" verbose="true"/>

   <!-- Moves a file or directory to a new file or directory -->
   <move file="filename.txt" tofile="/tmp/filename.bak" overwrite="true"/>
   <move file="/tmp" todir="/home/default/tmp"/>

   <!-- Turns a relative path into an absolute path -->
   <property name="relative_path" value="./"/>
   <resolvepath propertyName="absolute_path" file="${relative_path}"/>

   <!-- Checks if selected partition has the requested space -->
   <!--  Linux/Unix -->
   <hasfreespace partition="/" needed="125M"/>
   <!--  Windows -->
   <hasfreespace partition="c:" needed="500M"/>

   <!-- Stores size of file into a property -->
   <filesize file="./testfile.txt" propertyname="myProperty.testFileSize"/>
   <filesize file="${builddir}/${tarball}.tar.${compression}" propertyname="myProperty.finalFileSize"/>

   <!-- Gets the directory path of a file then sets a property to it's path -->
   <dirname file="filename.php" property="myProperty.filename_path"/>

   <!-- Creates a symlink -->
   <symlink target="/path/to/original/file" link="/where/to/symlink" overwrite="true"/>

   <!-- Loads contents of [text] file into a property -->
   <loadfile file="./VERSION.txt" property="version" failonerror="true"/>

   <!-- Tests if a directory/file exists then sets a property to a value -->
   <available file="./filename.php" type="file" property="is_testphp_exist" value="true"/>
   <available file="/path/to/somewhere/" type="dir" property="myProperty.is_that_path_exist" value="1"/>

   <!-- Condition -->

   <!-- Switch -->
   <switch value="${someproperty}">
      <case value="3">
         <echo message="Test message."/>
      </case>

      <case value="testvalue">
         <echo message="Test message."/>
      </case>

      <default>
         <echo message="Test message."/>
      </default>
   </switch>

   <!-- if/else -->
   <if>
         <available file="README.md"/>
      <then>
         <echo message="Don't forget to read README.md file."/>
      </then>
   </if>
   <if>
         <equals arg1="${someproperty}" arg2="somevalue"/>
      <then>
         <echo message="The value of property someproperty is somevalue"/>
      </then>
      <else>
         <echo message="The value of property someproperty is not somevalue"/>
      </else>
   </if>

   <!----- PhING / build.xml ----->

   <!-- Stores Phing version -->
   <phingversion property="myProperty.phingversion"/>
   <!-- Stores Phing version if it is 2.9 or higher -->
   <phingversion property="phingversion" atleast="2.9"/>

   <!-- Force exit build with a message -->
   <fail message="Error message!"/>
   <!--  Exit build if ${someproperty} is defined -->
   <fail if="someproperty" message="Error message!"/>
   <!-- Exit build unless ${someproperty} is defined. -->
   <fail unless="someproperty" message="Error message!"/>

   <!-- Debug/Displays all myProperty in the project -->
   <echomyProperty/>
   <!-- Debug/Displays all propertyprefix.* in the project -->
   <echomyProperty prefix="propertyprefix."/>

   <!-- Executes a shell command -->
   <exec command="php ./index.php" escape="false" passthru="true"/>
   <exec command="notfoundfile" returnProperty="myProperty.fileresult"/>
   <exec command="ls -l" dir="~/home"/>

   <!-- Calls another build file -->
   <phing phingfile="alternative-build-file.xml" inheritAll="true" target="clean"/>

   <!-- Defines user property in build file -->
   <property name="strings.english.filenotfound" value="File not found!"/>
   <property name="myProperty.indexfilename" value="index.php"/>
   <property name="myProperty.indexfilename" value="index.php" override="true"/>
   <!-- Loads myProperty from system environment with specified value as prefix -->
   <property environment="myProperty.PATH"/>

   <!-- Echoes a message to the current loggers -->
   <echo message="Test message."/>
   <echo>Test message #2.</echo>
   <!-- Writes a message to file -->
   <echo message="Test message #3." file="./filename.php"/>

   <!-- Exports all defined myProperty to file -->
   <exportmyProperty targetfile="myProperty.output"/>

   <!-- Runs a target -->
   <runtarget target="clean"/>

   <!-- Calculates MD5 or SHA1 hash of file - algorithms: http://php.net/manual/en/function.hash-algos.php -->
   <filehash file="./testfile.txt" algorithm="md5" propertyname="myProperty.testFileHash"/>
   <filehash file="${builddir}/${tarball}.tar.${compression}" algorithm="sha512" propertyname="myProperty.finalFileHash"/>

   <!-- Includes autoload file for execution -->
   <autoloader autoloaderpath="./includes/libraries/autoload.php"/>

   <!-- Sleeping for short period of time -->
   <sleep milliseconds="1"/>
   <sleep seconds="5"/>
   <sleep minutes="30"/>
   <sleep hours="4"/>

   <!-- Re-tries task(s) if failed -->
   <retry retrycount="3">
   <!-- Task -->
   </retry>


   <!-- Compression/Decompression -->

   <!-- Creates tarball archive file -->
   <tar destfile="./myfile.tar.gz" basedir="." compression="gzip"/>

   <!-- Untar archive(s) -->
   <untar file="./myfile.tar.gz" todir="./" forceExtract="true"/>

   <!-- Creates zip archive file -->
   <zip destfile="./myfile.zip" basedir="." comment="Test comment."/>

   <!-- Unzip archive(s) -->
   <untar file="./myfile.zip" todir="./" forceExtract="true"/>


   <!-- Tools -->

   <!-- Runs jsllint tool -->
   <jsllint file="path/to/javascript/file.js"/>

   <!-- PhING 3: Checks if given file is valid JSON -->
   <jsonvalidate file="path/to/json/file.json"/>

   <!-- Linux: Wrapper for notify-send, for displaying desktop notifications locally -->
   <notifysend title="Message title!" message="message body!"/>

   <!-- Runs rsync tool -->
   <filesync sourcedir="/path/to/somewhere/" destinationdir="/path/to/somewhere/else/" verbose="true"/>
    
   <!-- Runs ApiGen documentor tool -->
   <apigen source="classes" destination="docs" exclude="*/tests/*" title="API Documentation" deprecated="true" todo="false"/>

   <!-- Runs Composer dependency manager tool -->
   <composer command="install"/>

   <!-- Runs xmllint tool -->
   <xmllint file="./config.xml" haltonfailure="true"/>

   <!-- Runs phpmd tool -->
   <phpmd file="path/to/source/file.php" type="text" outfile="./build/reports/pmd.html"/>
   <phpmd file="path/to/sources">
      <formatter type="html" outfile="./build/reports/pmd.html" 
         allowedFileExtensions="php,php5,php7,phtml,inc"/>
   </phpmd>

   <!-- Download/Upload file using SCP -->
   <scp username="root" password="0123456789" host="webserver" fetch="true" 
      todir="/home/backup" file="/www/remote/htdocs/test.html" level="verbose"/>

   <!-- executes commands on a remote host using SSh -->
   <ssh username="root" password="0123456789" host="webserver" command="ls" 
      display="true"/>

   <!-- Runs phplint tool -->
   <phplint file="path/to/source/file.php" haltonfailure="true" 
      tofile="./phplint.html" level="warning" deprecatedAsError="true"/>

   <!-- Runs PHP_CodeSniffer tool -->
   <phpcodesniffer standard="Generic" format="summary" docGenerator="HTML" 
      file="/path/to/source-files/" docFile="/path/to/reports.html" 
      showWarnings="true" allowedFileExtensions="php php5 php7 phtml inc"/>

   <!-- Git, Svn, HG, FTP, PHPUnit, PHAr etc... -->
</project>